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In Your Ear - White Stripes, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams Kevin Wood /Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer WHITE STRIPES Icky Thump Wea Japan, 2,580 yen Li...

Responsible speech Whenever someone is criticized for saying outrageous things, whether it is Ann Coulter or Michael Moore (not that I equat...

Operation Whizzing Stallion Sage advice from FlyingRodent at Between the Hammer and the Anvil on how to make your inner life more fun . Bath...

More Schadenfreudilliousness! Early predictions had His Nibs Conrad Black, Lord Tubby of Fleet Street, being hit with a sentence of not more...

That light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train I've been reading a lot of stuff on Iraq lately, both opinion and factual repor...

Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer The Yiddish Policemen's Union By Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 411 pages, 26.95 dollars ...

Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Her Majesty refuses to act her age. Now nearly 80, an age when most people slow down if they...

"backpfeifengesicht" A hat tip to Tbogg commenter Doug over at heyJennySlater (the only blog I know of named for a line from o...

Sweet, sweet schadenfreude Karma's a bitch, ain't it your Lordship? Conrad Black has been convicted on three counts of mail fraud an...

Spitting right between their eyes is what the Rude Pundit specializes in. His latest installment is fairly light on the rudeness, but heavy ...

Supporting the troops...not First they send them to a place they just shouldn't be on the basis of trumped up charges and outright lies....

"I am Canadian" Personally, I always thought pulling the sweater over the other guy's head was a cheap move eh, but this guy w...

Get your smite on Biblical video games, because you know you wanna see Jesus kick Satan's ass and if you get one more request for one mo...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you our suggestion for the new motto of the Canadian Cynic blog: I was also touch...

An Inconvenient Arrest Al Gore's son held over speeding, drugs charges . From the "Liberal" New York Times The son of former V...

With friends like these ... Another friendly fire death confirmed in Afghanistan. It's bad enough when Canadian soldiers are killed by ...

"Shut up and stop trying to censor me!" Censorship and free speech seems to be a slippery concept for some people. Bill O'Riel...

Mingle 2 - Online Dating This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: suck (8x) death (7x) murder (6x) dick (4x...

How the other half "thinks" A must read post on a dangerous religious fruitcake over at Recursivity: Kirk Durston: Apologist for G...

Early help desks Having just bought a new Applebook laptop after years of using windoze, this rang a particular bell for me. (a hat tip to ...